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carina, no true lateral but a nearly straight, narrow carina just laterad 

 of the elliptical spiracle. A single seta on scutum disto-laterad ; a line 

 of weak setae across pronotum caudad. 



From two females, Glenndale, Maryland. From the woods 

 by sweeping, margin of streamlet, July 12, 1916. 



Types: Catalogue No. 20372, United States National Mus- 

 eum, two females on a tag, the head on a slide. 



Eupelmus 2-guttus n. sp. 



9. Length 1.65 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded 

 for nearly half the length of the abdomen. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the proximal third of the 

 abdomen laterad and ventrad, the scape except its dorsal edge, the 

 tarsi, the trochanters, knees, apex of cephalic tibiae, middle legs except 

 a dot dorsad on tibia a short distance ventrad of knee, and a cinctus 

 on the femur just proximad of the knee, caudal leg except the proxi- 

 mal half of the coxa and the tibiae at proximal fourth dorsad, brown- 

 ish yellow. 



Body finely scaly, the face in front of the cephalic ocellus opaque 

 but smooth. Segment 2 of abdomen slightly incised caudad at meson, 

 the others not so. Antenna inserted at the clypeus, the scape a little 

 compressed ; funicle I ring-like, a little wider than long, 2 and 3 sub- 

 equal, about twice longer than wide, 4 slightly longer than either, a 

 little longer than the pedicel, 7 and 8 quadrate; club 3-jointed. Fore 

 wings rather slender, the postmarginal vein distinctly longer than the 

 stigmal. 



Glenndale, Maryland. One female by sweeping waste places 

 in a garden, July 2, 1916. 



Type : Catalogue No. 20365, U. S. N. M., the female on a 

 tag, an antenna on a slide. 



Sceptrophorus marilandicus n. sp. 



9. Of the same stature and so forth as solus (Howard), but some- 

 what smaller and less robust, the basal fourth of the abdomen above 

 (somewhat more below) is pale yellowish except a dot at each margin 

 at base, the scape is wholly pale yellow, the hind tibia bears a metallic 

 spot, a short distance below the knee, and the fore wings have the apex 

 widely infuscated, the infuscation extending conically proximad to op- 

 posite the apex of the stigmal vein. Also the tegulae are half pale 

 (basal half), the frons is slightly narrower and lacks the four 

 rows of minute pin-punctures present on the other (or they are very 

 obscure), the mandibles are smrller, their third tooth not so obtuse at 

 apex, subacute, (truncate in the other but not very broad), the funicle 

 joints are all shorter, the first subequal to the pedicel (6 quadrate), 



